Spindrift

Published: July 24, 2004 12:00AM

JUST, A PICNIC?
Bastille Day? the fourth? the
eighth,
but just another day?
tell our dads, aunts, uncles, that
Through wars, they fought their
way.
July 4th! Independence Day
if it's during the week we're off
but don't tell the guys at Valley
Forge
They'll cry, won't even scoff.
Stars and stripes, Old Glory, but
people don't salute!
That red's for all the blood's
been spilled
don't even care to boot.
William M. Zimmerman
NEW METHODS?
People become
resistant to change
until they find out,
new is better.
Marsha Blyth
TRANQUILITY
Tranquility:
means peaceful, without stress.
Tranquility is everyone's wish.
In this world
It is hard to experience this.
Finding time to be by yourself
Is uppermost the way to have
Tranquility.
Peacefulness means everything
Everything to me.
Writing poems gives
Tranquility.
Sharon Swartzentruber
REBIRTH
In cell of Self I sit alone
imprisoned by its moldering
walls,
engrossed in gloom and
darkness,
while outside, sunshine calls.
At last a sense of loneliness
comes struggling through the
dark.
A still, small voice comes
whispering.
My eyes detect a spark.
Somewhere I hear the sounds
of life
As they go passing by.
I pound the bars until they
break
and lo! Behold the sky!
There is no darkness any more,
no fear; nor bleak despair,
for my God walks within me
and Life is everywhere.
Avis
SPRING SONG
A soul breathes
the essence of spring.
Bright garden colors
catch the eyes.
The mind opens.
The heart expands.
The spirit flies.
Elaine D. Snively
For Spindrift, poems should be not more than 20 lines. Send to A.L. Blum, 770 Diamond Alley, Millersburg, 44654.